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MARK 10:43 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant — not so with you is the kingdom's structural inversion of the Gentile power model. The not so is absolute: the kingdom community does not operate on the lord-it-over model in any form. Whoever wants to become great: the desire for greatness is not condemned but redirected. The path to greatness in the kingdom is not position over others but service to others.

Church Fathers on Mark 10:43

The other Apostles are indignant at seeing James and John seeking for honour; wherefore it is said, 'And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.' For being influenced by human feelings, they were moved with envy; and their first displeasure arose from their seeing that they were not taken up by the Lord; before that time they were not displeased, because they saw that they themselves were honoured before other men. At this time the…

Theophylact · 11th century

In which He teaches, that he is the greater, who is the less, and that he becomes the lord, who is servant of all: vain, therefore, was it both for the one party to seek for immoderate things, and the other to be annoyed at their desiring greater things, since we are to arrive at the height of virtue not by power but by humility.

Bede · 8th century
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